The phase 2 report into the pre-Iraq war intelligence failure is still being stonewalled by Senate Intelligence chairman Pat Roberts: Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel’s inquiry into the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would […]
Imagine that – Bush and the GOP continue to sink. 36% approval for Bush 30% approval for Congress 40% approval for Bush’s foreign policy and the war on terror 35% approval for the handling of Iraq 69% believe the country is headed in the wrong direction 60% of Republicans polled disapprove of Congress The Republicans […]
OK I have to really get something off my chest. The arrest of those three college students arrested in Alabama has really got me thinking. I pointed out in my original post on the subject how it had become a right wing conspiracy theory. If you frequent political forums, like I do, then you would […]
Now we learn of allegations of wide-spread insider trading occurring in our nation’s capital: After a comment by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) on Air America’s Majority Report Wednesday evening, RAW STORY has learned that House Democrats are pushing the ethics committee to investigate allegations of congressional offices providing privleged information to Wall Street investors. An […]
How can we trust the President when he constantly lies to us? Last month he told the people of this country that Congress had access to the same intelligence about Iraq that he did. That was proven a lie a couple weeks ago when a nonpartisan congressional investigation group released a report stating the President […]
The RNC released their “white flag” video a couple weeks ago attacking Howard Dean and other Democrats. Now its the DNC’s turn to attack the right and this time they are doing it by proving that Bush has lied in recent speeches. The video shows President Bush telling Americans that Congress had the same access […]
Fitzgerald is presenting new information to the grand jury today. Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald appeared this morning to present information to a new grand jury in the CIA leak investigation. Fitzgerald has been probing for two years what role senior Bush administration officials have played in leaking a CIA operative name to the media […]
According to Raw Story, testimony given by Karl Rove’s aide could further his chances of getting indicted in the outing of Valerie Plame. The attorneys say that Rove’s former personal assistant, Susan B. Ralston — who was also a special assistant to President Bush — testified in August about why Cooper’s call to Rove was […]
Now that Brownie is totally out of FEMA, it appears that the investigation into the Katrina Response might be heating up. Rep. Tom Davis who is chairing the panel has threatened to issue subpoenas if the White House and other agencies do not supply documents to the committee by Nov. 18. The original request for […]
The non-partisan General Accounting Office of the government has released a report that shows major concerns over the new electronic voting systems.Brad Blog has more details on this. This is really warming news coming to me two days after I received instructions in the mail on how to use Ohio’s new touch screen voting system. […]